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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Yet consumers now expect every book to be priced like a mass market paperback (or less), to format shift as they please, and to own that book forever.
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I still own the mass market pbooks I bought 40 years ago (and thought worth rereading) and can read them just as well under my current compact fluro lights as I could under the icandescent bulbs 40 years ago. I won't see forever but I can give them to others to read in the future.
Why shouldn't I expect equivalent access to a mass market ebook? I'm lazy - the only reason I'd format shift was if I couldn't get a reader for the format it came in. Any business wants to squeeze as much money as it can out of it's customers so I understand why the publishers might hope that I'd be willing to pay again each time I needed a new format but I feel no moral obligation to do so.